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Thursday, April 20, 2017

Bosch Plans to Open 75 More BRIDGE Centres Across India

Bosch plans to take its skilling programme BRIDGE (Bosch’s
Response to India’s Development and Growth through Employability Enhancement)
from the present 125 centres across the country to 200 centres soon.

The short-term job-oriented training is targeted at employing
the youth in the service industry. “Nearly 7,500 people have graduated from
this (BRIDGE) skilling programme over four years, and we are planning to take
these centres to 200 soon,” MD of Bosch and Bosch Group India President
Soumitra Bhattacharya told reporters

Bosch also wants to take the number to 10,000 from the
present 7,500 people.
While the programme intended at the manufacturing industry
comes from a more long-term, hard-skills development perspective, it is more short-term
soft-skills oriented for the service industry.

“Our long-term career-oriented training offered at the Bosch
Vocational Center (BVC) has been Indianised over the years, and as of December
2016, around 3,500 individuals have passed out over these years,” he said,
adding, “Bosch is committed to skilling well before Prime Minister started
Skill India. We will continue doing it...we do it not just for us; we do it for
society,” he said.

Also, over the past two years, the company has developed a
new training programme that focuses on producing high-quality skilled artisans,
such as carpentry and electrician, in India.

Bhattacharya said, “There are two training facilities in
India — one in Bengaluru focused on carpentry, the other one in Nashik focused on
electrician. We are planning to open one more in Pune, focusing on plumbing. We
are also looking at good partners to create multipliers.”